Skizm is a website run by criminals which streams thugs shooting and killing each other. Miles is a computer programmer bored with his life. Miles visits Skizm website, insults a random user who turns out to be Riktor, the owner of the website, and who shows up with his thugs at Miles' apartment. Miles is tranquilized. He wakes up with two guns bolted-glued to his two hands, and is informed by Riktor that he sent a woman assassin, Nix, to kill him. Miles flees from his apartment into the city, while drones are filming and streaming his journey. Riktor kidnaps Miles' ex-girlfriend Nova and threatens to kill her unless he faces Nix. Upon finding out that Riktor killed her father, Nix teams up with Miles and they storm the Skizm headquarters. Nix dies, but Miles kills Riktor by throwing him from the top of the building and saves Nova.
A black satire on acid about people's addiction to video games, internet and violence, "Guns Akimbo" is a mess of a film that never really finds its real balance. It is a typical modern movie for attention deficit hyperactive disorder-generation and autism-audience since its frenetic pace where no scene can last for longer than two seconds is exhausting, rushed, forced and numbing. From the technical perspective, everything works: the crystal-clear cinematography is gorgeous, the editing is professional, and the lighting is wonderful. But they cannot compensate for the wrong approach taken to craft the storyline. Overedited and overstuffed, "Guns Akimbo" has only small crumbs of "normal" when it relaxes to be casual and more genuine. This is not a good use of actor Daniel Radcliffe, who spends most of the film in underwear, with two guns "glued" to his arms, so he has to carefully watch while unzipping his pants, as to not accidentally blow off his penis while urinating in the toilet. It is more cringe and embarrassing than fun. There are several weird ideas here. In one of them, while live-streaming Miles hiding, villain Riktor and a director argue over which camera to switch to from their control room. A gimp advises the director to do what Riktor says, while the director replies: "How do you even breathe with that stupid gimp mask on?" Riktor then loses his patience and starts chocking the director, while the gimp cynically replies to the director: "Having trouble breathing?" In another, Nix throws a knife at villain Dane, but he catches it and throws it back at her, slicing two middle fingers from her hand. Later on, after she defeated Dane, Nix is in an argument with Miles, so she takes her chopped off middle finger and places it on her hand to show what she thinks of him. There are random camera movements and chaotic directions from everywhere, yet it's as if the authors just simply forgot how to relax and simply have fun.
Grade:+
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